About VCC
PROJECT APPROACH
Design Review: Pre-Construction Services
Our team at VCC understands the importance of the pre-construction phase of any project. Our team begins to work extensively with the architect and project team during the design process. We review plans at every update for constructability, building system types and value management.
We provide a peer review of the plans, with phasing plans, alternate system options and red-line progress prints to assist the architect in producing the most workable drawings possible, eliminating future change order requests due to drawing conflicts and detail issues.
Budget updates, pre construction conferences with each trade, alert scheduling and regular progress meetings are all methods by which VCC maintains its leadership in pre-construction services. This is our guarantee that the construction process is started with a complete and sound understanding of all issues.
Budget and Cost Analysis
VCC’s project teams use the master schedule as a baseline, creating short interval schedules that are updated regularly. We understand that only with such current and precise figures can our clients and project team members make important financial decisions while constructing the Master Budget. Our reputation for providing clients with accurate project budgets is second to none in the industry.
Schedule Control and Trade Contractor Coordination
Using the Master Schedule as a baseline, short interval schedules are created and updated regularly. Daily activities are logged in diary form as the basis for measuring progress and maintaining construction deadlines. A three-week projection is produced every week, creating a tightly focused framework for coordinating all work on site at any time.
The Project Superintendent is critical in synchronizing the daily activities of all trades through weekly meetings with foremen and supervisors. From the three-week schedule all daily activity can be smoothly coordinated—materials arrive on time, with workmen ready to put them in place.
This focused scheduling also enables VCC to evaluate quickly any change orders, avoid bottlenecks, schedule inspections and keep owners informed of the exact status of their project.
Trade Contractor Selection
VCC uses its extensive regional and national contacts to begin the formation of the bidders list of contractors. Through pre-bid reviews with trade contractors, we ensure that bid packages are complete in scope and detail. This thorough preparation allows VCC and the owners to make valid comparisons of subcontractor bids and receive the most competitive prices available.
Whether through pre-qualifying standards or our own review, VCC works with quality subcontractors. Once bid proposals have been gathered we can then present a final pricing package with detailed estimates and bids for each trade, and scope/price comparisons.
After pricing approval VCC enters into detailed subcontract agreements. These contracts establish all items of scope, scheduled durations, quality standards, warranties and the expected levels of production. This contractual relationship provides the level of control needed for value management.
Inclusion
VCC is committed to the outreach and inclusion of Small Business concerns (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business concerns (SDB), Women-Owned Small Business concerns (WOSB), Veteran-Owned Small Business concerns (VOSB), Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business concerns (SDVOSB), Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HVCU/MI) and HUBZone Small Business (HSB) when possible.
In addition, we are committed to soliciting bids from all businesses listed for all trades required for a construction project, being fair and open in the selection process, tracking targeted participation, and to cooperating with any audits necessary to document our participation.
Change Management
When changes to the construction plans are necessary, VCC adjusts accurately and efficiently. Following an Owner’s request for a change, the appropriate subcontractors are contacted, and given all details necessary to submit revised pricing within ten days. Attentive to an owner’s needs for accurate appraisal of changes, VCC requires that each subcontractor response include necessary unit and labor costs with a detailed take off from the approved plans. After all take-offs and prices are double checked against plans in the VCC offices, they are submitted to the owner with full confidence that the cost and construction changes are valid.
Quality Control and Value Management
VCC builds projects to the highest levels of quality, maintaining safe and drug-free work environments, and meeting the owner’s budget. Every phase completed, every system installed, and every fixture placed is evaluated in a VCC checklist of quality. VCC’s management is on site and on time to guarantee a job done well, at cost, and on time.
This is our Value Management. Each detail is double checked with our years of experience. Every square foot we build adds to our ability to bring your project home on time and on budget. Value Management is built into VCC’s history and future.
Project Delevopment
Typically, it will take three weeks from receiving the drawings for VCC to bid the project and develop the proposal. Then one week for owner approval, and another week for buyout and subcontractor execution.
